History
The association was created in 1905 as the gymnastics club Turnverein Jahn Emsdetten and formed a football department in 1907. The footballers left to form a separate club called Spielverein Emsdetten in 1924 and adopted the name Spielvereinigung Emsdetten in 1935.
The club has played amateur football throughout its history and came close to advancing into the third division Landesliga Westfalen, then the highest amateur class in German football, when they met TSV Hüls in a 1949 playoff before 10,00 spectators. Emsdetten did later find its way into the Landesliga, playing two seasons there from 1954 to 1956.
Re-structuring of German football leagues helped push the club down to lower levels of competition. In 1970 they rose to play in the Verbandsliga Westfalen (IV) and would move up to become a third division side after league re-organization in 1978, playing in the Oberliga Westfalen (III). A next-to-last place finish in 1980 would drive the club back down to the Verbandsliga, but success in regional cup play earned Emsdetten a place in the 1980–81 German Cup competition where they went out 0:6 in the first round to 1. FC Köln.
Several years spent in fifth division competition ended in 1991 when the club was relegated to the Landesliga Westfalen (VI). SpVgg began to climb its way back up in 2000, returning to the now fifth tier Verbandsliga before a second-place result there in 2002 qualified the team to play in the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) where they compete as a lower-to-mid table side.
SpVgg Emsdetten delivers its home matches in the Salvus-Stadion am Grevener Damm which has a capacity of 5,000 (~200 seats). The club currently has a membership of 1,000.
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